FreeRADIUS monitoring with Netdata
FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance free RADIUS suite.
This module will monitor one or more FreeRADIUS servers, depending on your configuration.
Requirements
FreeRADIUS with enabled status feature.
The configuration for the status server is automatically created in the sites-available directory. By default, server is
enabled and can be queried from every client.
To enable status feature do the following:
cd sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/status status
- restart FreeRADIUS server
Metrics
All metrics have "freeradius." prefix.
| Metric |
Scope |
Dimensions |
Units |
| authentication |
global |
requests, responses |
packets/s |
| authentication_access_responses |
global |
accepts, rejects, challenges |
packets/s |
| bad_authentication |
global |
dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types |
packets/s |
| proxy_authentication |
global |
requests, responses |
packets/s |
| proxy_authentication_access_responses |
global |
accepts, rejects, challenges |
packets/s |
| proxy_bad_authentication |
global |
dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types |
packets/s |
| accounting |
global |
requests, responses |
packets/s |
| bad_accounting |
global |
dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types |
packets/s |
| proxy_accounting |
global |
requests, responses |
packets/s |
| proxy_bad_accounting |
global |
dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types |
packets/s |
Configuration
Edit the go.d/freeradius.conf configuration file using edit-config from the
Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.
cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/freeradius.conf
Here is an example for 2 servers:
jobs:
- name: local
host: 127.0.0.1
- name: remote
host: 203.0.113.10
secret: secret
For all available options please see
module configuration file.
Troubleshooting
To troubleshoot issues with the freeradius collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output
should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.
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Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on
your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
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Switch to the netdata user.
sudo -u netdata -s
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Run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector:
./go.d.plugin -d -m freeradius